Werner Grunow

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Werner Grunow (born January 20, 1932 in Berlin ; † August 11, 2016 there ) was a German radio play director .

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Werner Grunow began his radio play career with the Berliner Rundfunk in the post-war period, when it was still broadcasting from Masurenallee, and assisted Egon Monk with the recording of Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar , where the author Bertolt Brecht was present. Werner Grunow, one of the most famous radio directors in the GDR, directed over a hundred radio plays, features and children's radio plays.

He presented the first long radio play night of the radio in the GDR on the Berlin radio, which was designed in 1987 for the "750 years of Berlin". In 1982 he received the GDR radio play award for the best director at Jazz am Grab von Arne Leonhardt. Other award-winning radio play productions include Christina by Irina Liebmann (1980), driving school by Bernd Schirmer (1984), Schrei der Wildgese by Helmut Sakowski (1987). From 1992 Werner Grunow worked for the word productions of DS-KULTUR and DeutschlandRadio.

Werner Grunow was buried on September 29, 2016 in the Pankow III cemetery.

Radio play productions (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sibylle Bolik: The radio play in the GDR - themes and tendencies, Peter Lang GmbH, European publishing house of the sciences, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. 298 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Grunow, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio play director
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 11th August 2016
Place of death Berlin